The Essential Bar Guide: Glass And Drink 101

The Essential Bar Guide

the shot glass

Once a postscript in the home bar, the shot glass has risen to fame of late. The typical volume size is 1.5 ounces.The classic shot is with tequila, lime and salt — but there are countless recipes.

Suggested Drink:

The Kamikaze

Ingredients: ½ oz lime juice ½ oz triple sec ½ oz vodka

Shake ingredients in a mixer with ice and strain into the shot glass

And so you have a basic set of glassware for your home bar. To make it more complete, you may also want to invest in the following: the whisky sour glass, cordial glass and Irish coffee glass. Of course, if you enjoy beer and wine, you will have to purchase appropriate glassware for each.

We recommend a Pilsner glass for beer and separate glassware for red and white wine. For red, the goblet is fat, and for white the receptacle is narrow. For fine red wine, an oversize glass is ideal and will impress company.

prepare to perform

Proper performance is vital to becoming a home bartender or mixologist. When you make a drink with flair and sound technique, it will taste better and you will look like Tom Cruise in Cocktail. Or so you hope. Here's some key advice on basic drink preparation technique.

Now that you have the proper glass for your drink, you need to know how to chill and frost it.

To chill a glass, remember one rule of thumb: chill before you fill. There are three common methods:

1- Fill the glass with ice and stir before you pour the drink.2- Fill the glass with crushed ice before use.3- Put the glass in the freezer or refrigerator an hour before use.

To frost a glass, store it in the freezer or refrigerator, or immerse it in shaved ice until it has a white appearance. To frost a glass with sugar, chill and moisten the rim with lemon or lime and dip in sugar. To prepare a margarita, rub the rim with lime and dip into coarse salt.